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Re: Mass bug filing: Cryptographic protection against modification



On Wed, 05 May 2004, Brian Nelson wrote:
> I'm not going to argue that we should throw out the GPL because we
> can't distribute its text because that would be insane.  Throwing
> out the SC seems a lot more rational at this point.

If you really want to be that pedantic about things, it's rather
trivial to argue that the GPL should be explicitely exempted by DFSG
§10, even though I'm personally not happy with doing that.[1]

Regardless, I really don't see a problem here. But, again, if you
really think that it is a serious issue, one that we can't fix by
applying some common sense,[2] think about how to fix the issue
sanely, and propose language to fix it.


Don Armstrong

1: For reasons I've outlined in
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20040502.223149.3ce3bff4.html
2: Seriously, do we need to go to the insanity of the legal systems
that exist in our various jurisdiction and attempt to codify common
sense?
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